My dad had a Lenovo Ideapad 110s with Windows 10 that was just getting so bad it was making the laptop useless. Windows updates failing due to space. Chrome needing re-installed every now and again. Stuck on Windows Updates screen on shutdown every time.
Tried refreshing Windows 10, but could not get enough HD space at all even though I delete near every program and even some files that probably should not have been deleted.
Then I read online about Linux and decided I would give it a go. I have installed Windows and OSx via USB's in the past. How hard can it be right?
Some light Reddit and random sites reading and I decided on Solus.
Used Rufus to write the .iso to a new USB.
Ran Solus from the USB and thought that was it, until I realized that it was obviously just running from the USB and not the Internal HD.
Tried to figure out how to install to the local HD, and realized it was just a app for installing it there already on Solus.
Ran through the installer and it failed. Tried a few times and it kept failed.
More Google. Realized it could not be installed on my laptop with the current partition setup.
Read about GParted. Use TuxBoot to install to that same USB (only had 1, so had to overwrite my Solus boot)
Couldn't boot into GParted. Google. Changed a few bios settings.
Finally into GParted. Except now it was stuck at a login screen. Tried a view settings such as ForceVideo. No use.
Spent ~1 hour playing with it, the bios, flashing Gparted again using another app instead of TuxBoot.
All failing. Was going to decide to give up and just leave it as Windows at this stage, it was 12 at night.
Restarted Laptop, and now I could no longer get into Windows. Was just bringing me back to the Boot Manager screen whenever I tried to boot from HD. Thought it was my Bios changes, changed them back, no use.
Another 30 minutes of failing.
Flashed Solus again(I had my own laptop to do this btw)
Booted into it. Playing around again and realized GParted was actually there already installed on it!
Managed to partition my drive, ext4 and SWAP partitions.
Went to install Solus to HD via the internal software. Failed. Few random errors. Restarted and tried again. Re-partitioned the drives. Failed again.
Google. I had been trying the 'Assign mount points to partitions you had ****' - tried the 'Erase all content **' option.
Success! Rebooted my machine, took out the USB, and I was in. A laptop fully booting a linux OS instead the bloated W10.
Played around with settings, including removing the only user accounts password, via teminal.
Failed. When I restarted it still prompted me, but the previous password no longer worked.
Decided to just reformat and re-install Solus again. No messing with Terminal password this time. Just via the settings to disable it. Sorted.
Restarted laptop a few times to make sure it would boot up ok with no errors (my dad is the type to ask what he does when asked about cookies on a website)
Tried to install a few apps. Chrome first. Failed via Terminal. Failed via .deb download. Failed via Software Updater.
Restarted again, and somehow Chrome was there, I only realized when I saved a link on the desktop and it prompted me to open with Chrome instead of FF. No idea how, but I didn't care.
So after around 5/6 hours of what I thought would be simple enough, the laptop was finally setup.
And I am actually so happy with it, it makes me wish I had another laptop to install another version of Linux on!
I was thinking my Mum's, but it's a touchscreen W10 :|
TL;DR - Went to install Solus instead of W10 with no idea of how Linux worked. Took me 5/6 hours but so happy with the result that I would happily do it all over again.
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